+ /// VectorType::getInteger - This static method gets a VectorType with the
+ /// same number of elements as the input type, and the element type is an
+ /// integer type of the same width as the input element type.
+ ///
+ static VectorType *getInteger(const VectorType *VTy) {
+ unsigned EltBits = VTy->getElementType()->getPrimitiveSizeInBits();
+ const Type *EltTy = IntegerType::get(EltBits);
+ return VectorType::get(EltTy, VTy->getNumElements());
+ }
+
+ /// VectorType::getExtendedElementVectorType - This static method is like
+ /// getInteger except that the element types are twice as wide as the
+ /// elements in the input type.
+ ///
+ static VectorType *getExtendedElementVectorType(const VectorType *VTy) {
+ unsigned EltBits = VTy->getElementType()->getPrimitiveSizeInBits();
+ const Type *EltTy = IntegerType::get(EltBits * 2);
+ return VectorType::get(EltTy, VTy->getNumElements());
+ }
+
+ /// VectorType::getTruncatedElementVectorType - This static method is like
+ /// getInteger except that the element types are half as wide as the
+ /// elements in the input type.
+ ///
+ static VectorType *getTruncatedElementVectorType(const VectorType *VTy) {
+ unsigned EltBits = VTy->getElementType()->getPrimitiveSizeInBits();
+ assert((EltBits & 1) == 0 &&
+ "Cannot truncate vector element with odd bit-width");
+ const Type *EltTy = IntegerType::get(EltBits / 2);
+ return VectorType::get(EltTy, VTy->getNumElements());
+ }
+
+ /// @brief Return the number of elements in the Vector type.